Our Plan for continued support at PGA

CURRENT CLIENTS:

Telephone or online therapy (including EMDR) will continue.

NEW & RETURNING CLIENTS

• We would like to invite you to consider DISCOUNTED telephone and/or video [online] support with PGA. This is a service we have offered for some years to our internationally-based clients or those for whom physical in-person support was not an option. BACP and EMDR UK have both recommended remote support in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Please call/contact us today for more information or to book an appointment. 

ONLINE THERAPY 

Special considerations have been made to protect our clients

• “Any unplanned breaks due to [therapist] illness or other causes will be managed in ways to minimise inconveniencing clients and, for extended breaks, may include offering to put clients in touch with other practitioners.” (BACP Good Practice, point 41)
• Practitioners need to ensure that their “wellbeing is sufficient to sustain the quality of their work” (BACP Commitment 2d) 
• Coronovirus contingency clause: Disclosures in the public interest, based on the common law, are made where this is essential to prevent a serious and imminent threat to public health, national security, the life of the individual or a third party, or to prevent or detect serious crime. This may become relevant if your therapist contracts the virus and is obliged to inform the NHS of people they've been in contact with. In this case, we may need to share client names and contact details (but not the context in which we know them). However, clients may be contacted by the NHS. 

The latest developments in our field, and the latest guidance on Health and Wellbeing for staff, clients and the wider community (particularly those more vulnerable), is something we take very seriously at PGA. (see below). 

Thank you for your cooperation. 

Recent online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses attended by PGA Staff in  response to Coronavirus pandemic:

Starting 18th March 2020 "Coronovirus - Considering our Responses and Responsibilities  (ongoing weekly)- John Wilson, Kate Dunn & Dr Carole Francis-Smith

20th March 2020 "Can I work with Children & Young People Online? - John Wilson, Jan Stiff & Susan Utting-Simon

March 2020 "EMDR UK Annual Conference" - EMDR Association (UK) incl. Dr Arne Hoffman, Dr Ad de Jong,  Dr Nacho Jarero 

April 2020 "Online EMDR Q&A" - Dr Naomi Fisher & Matthew Wesson (President Elect EMDR UK)

April 2020 "Using EMDR Online with Children & Adolescents" - Dr Naomi Fisher

April 2020 "Using EMDR Online: Answering Your Questions" - Dr Naomi Fisher

April 2020 "Coronavirus Outbreak Adult Well-Being" - The Training Hub

April 2020 "Infection Control - Children's Homes" - The Training Hub

May 2020 "A Pluralistic Approach to Therapy" -  Prof. Mick Cooper (Full Day)

May 2020 "Debunking Gender Identity WORKSHOP - Madison Amy Webb

May 2020 "Infection Control - Residential" - The Training Hub

June 2020 "An Introduction to Child Exploitation & Child Sexual Abuse - Children's Homes" - The Training Hub

June 2020 "CYP (Children & Young People) Safeguarding Drill & Practitioner Group"

June 2020 EMDR UK Virtual Conference & AGM (2 Days)

June 2020 "Data Protection Regulation - Residential" - The Training Hub

July 2020 "Understanding Working with Gender Variance & Autism" - Madison Amy Webb

July 2020 "Internet Safety - Childen's Homes" - The Training Hub

July 2020 "Equality & Diversity - Children's Homes" - The Training Hub

August 2020 "Black Lives Matter Children Services" - The Training Hub

August 2020 "T.A. [Transactional Analysis] in a Crisis" - Mark Head & Leilani Mitchell

August 2020 "Safeguarding Children - Children's Homes" - The Training Hub

September 2020 "Amphitheatre of our Ancestors: working with the parent ego state" - Frances Townsend

September 2020 "Using Creative Arts Online" - Ani de la Prida

September 2020 "Mindfulness Based EMDR" - Dr Alexandra Dent, Heart Led Psychotherapy

September 2020 "The Changing Landscape of College & School-based Counselling" - Prof. Mick Cooper, Jo Holmes & Sarah Watson

September 2020 "Me, You and Us: Understanding Transference in Couples Counselling" - Rosalind Sharples & Nathan Gould

September 2020 "Online Private Practice 2020. Communication: Can You Understand me?" - BACP (6 hrs approved CPD) with 

"Dynamic Running Therapy" - William Pullen 

 "Ethnic bias in communication" - Keon West 

"Working with deaf clients" - Victoria Nelson

"Creative Approaches to therapeutic communication" - Ani de la Prida

"Understanding & Supporting Autistic Clients" - Lisa Cromer

"Monolingual Fragility - Power & Privilege across languages" - Beverly Costa

"Working therapeutically with an Aging Population" Helen Kelwell 

"Managing ethical boundaries with parents of young adult clients" - Sally Brown

September 2020 "Visioning Your Life" - Dr Dina Glouberman

October 2020 "Polyvagal Theory - Neuroscience" - Maggi McAllister-MacGregor

October 2020 "Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma" Ruth M. Buczynski, PhD

November 2020 "Irvin Yalom and the art of psychotherapy" -  Dr Irvin Yalom M.D., BACP (CPD Hub)

November 2020 "EMDR & Autism" - Dr Naomi Fisher, Consultant

November 2020 "Effective Anger Management Tools for Working with Men" - James Hawes

January 2021 "Pesso Boyden Therapy: From the client's perspective" - Julia Grayson

January 2021 "Focusing as Action-Oriented Contemplation" - Serge Prengel, N.Y.C

January 2021 "Uncertainty: An Existential Perspective" - Prof. Ernesto Spinelli

January 2021 "EMDR and the Power of Relationship" - Jessica Wooliscroft, Consultant

February 2021 "Counsellor accounts of erotic countertransference emerging within the therapeutic setting" Mason Neely, BACP CPD Hub

February 2021 "The Silent Anorexic: Strategies for engaging the Client" Prof. Julia Buckroyd, BACP CPD Hub

February 2021 "The Body Keeps the Score" - Dr Bessel van der Kolk M.D., BACP CPD Hub

February 2021 "DNMS (Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy) Ego-State Therapy Interventions for EMDR Therapists" [1 CE point] - Shirley Jean Schmit, M.A., LPC (USA)

February 2021 "A (Very) Simple Guide to GDPR" - Johanson & McKinney (EMDR UK Consultants)

March 2021 "Overcoming Fear of the Future" - Dr Dina Glouberman

March 2021 "Healing Trauma with Peter Levine" -  Dr Peter Levine/The Relationship School

March 2021 "In the realm of Hungry Ghosts" Dr Gabor Mate, Genius Network Annual Event 2017

March 2021 "The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma" Dr Bessel van der Kolk, CenterScene, Center for Healthy Communities, L.A. 2015

March 2021 "EMDR UK Annual Conference" - EMDR Association (UK) incl. Dr Ben Wright, Dr Roger Solomon, Dr Arun Mansukani

March 2021 "Family Constellation: Understanding Family System Structure & Dynamics" - Alex Piotrowska